Sub-Saharan Africa Faced with Regaining Lost Ground
The global pandemic has put intense pressure on economies across sub-Saharan Africa. Many governments are struggling to maintain macroeconomic stability while also meeting the basic needs of their pop...
22 Loka 202017min
Michael Kremer: Investing in Vaccines Now Would Buy Time, Save $Billions
In the early 2000s, Nobel Laureate, Michael Kremer helped develop the design of advance market commitment models (AMCs). They were used to incentivize the private sector to work on issues of relevance...
20 Loka 202025min
Unprecedented Fiscal Response to an Unprecedented Crisis
Seven months after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, more than 1 million people have died of the disease and trillions of dollars have been spent in an effort to contain its de...
14 Loka 202016min
Global Financial Stability: Policy Support Builds Bridge to Recovery
While economies across the globe continue to feel the pressures from the pandemic, the latest Global Financial Stability Report shows the extraordinary fiscal and monetary policy measures taken by gov...
12 Loka 202019min
Kristalina Georgieva: The Long Ascent from the Depths of the Crisis
As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on people and economies across the globe, the IMF and World Bank prepare for their second round of virtual meetings since the start of the crisis. In her custo...
7 Loka 202014min
Kristalina Georgieva Talks Inequality with Oxfam
The pandemic is adding pressure on society's most vulnerable and could lead to a significant rise in income inequality. In this podcast, IMF Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, talks with Max Law...
25 Syys 202026min
Small Elephants Play Big Role in Fighting Climate Change
While the African elephant is the largest and the most famous land animal in the world, very few people know anything about the African forest elephant. Forest elephants are smaller and live in densel...
22 Syys 202025min
Rethinking Work During and After Lockdown
While our work environments changed literally overnight, the impact of lockdowns on the nature of work is likely to last well beyond the pandemic. In a study published by the National Bureau of Econom...
28 Elo 202023min
